7 Ecumenical Councils | Orthodoxy Explained

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[alexlupu]

Glory to God and Mother of God and I wish everyone good health

[Mosesthewhiteboy]

I wish you would've mentioned when Saint Nicholas slapped arius for denying the divinity of Christ.

[ImpastaII]

0:48 I believe this definition may be misleading because even in the first council of Nicaea did not all the bishops in the world meet. So this definition may need some work. But video was over all really pretty informative, keep it up!

[theunfortunategreek.]

Is Saint Athanasius your patron Saint? 🙌🏽☦️

[jonasilver]

Correction: Monophysitism doesn't teach that the two natures of christ are "blended into one nature". Monophysitism teaches that the human nature of Christ was consumed by His divine nature, leaving only a divine nature. It essentially rejects the humanity of Christ and is similar of an earlier heresy called Docetism, which teaches that Christ only appeared to be human to us, but didn't take on a human nature.

[PraiseLordd]

You are like a non-heretical version of Redeemed Zoomer! Make more!

[arthurtsiakopoulos]

In reality whether you like it or not there are (9) nine E. C.

[Orthodox]

Great content but some memes are a bit angry

[pierregiraud]

Unaltered Confession of Augsburg (1530), seventh and last ecumenical council of Catholic Christianity.
Internal validity of a council means that any dogmatic definition must not contradict the work of previous ecumenical councils. Thus, once the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed had been established, all subsequent councils were concerned to ratify the previous ecumenical councils, even Ephesus, for Nicene.
Yet, according to the Synod of Nicaea II, the person of Christ is only venerated, according to his image, because only the divinity can be worshipped. Thus, the humanity of Jesus Christ is considered separate from his divinity. As a result, the person of Christ is not the eternal Son of God as divine center of divine attribution of humanity and divinity, the object of worship, since he cannot be worshipped through his image, but a simple conjunction of the two natures, human and divine. This explains why he can only be venerated through his icon. Nicaea II is, therefore, no more than a Nestorian synod. As a result, Nicaea II is null and void on the grounds of Nestorianism, an accusation that can be repeated for Const.IV. Thereafter, no further ecumenical councils were recognized by the Pentarchy (1054).
On the other hand, the doctrine of the unaltered Augsburg Confession and Luther's Small Catechism (C.A. III & XX) have an internal ecumenical vocation, in that they are part of the coherent tradition of the Church, synthesized by the Creed, which this doctrine and tradition specify: Mt.13/52 and Is.7/9 (LXX). What's more, like the conciliar tradition, they lay claim to this coherent tradition (325-681 A.D).

The fact that the Augustana invariata was officially received by all the reformers (Calvin, Luther, Melanchthon and Bucer) between 1536 and 1538, despite subsequent defections, whether latent or public, gives this doctrinal clarification of the Creed the status of the 7th Ecumenical Council. The defections undid the text of the Wittenberg Concord of 1536, but not the fact that the Augsburg Confession was given the honor it deserved (external validity).

This is why, following in the footsteps of the first six ecumenical councils, we accept the doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism as irrefutable decisions of the 7th ecumenical council of the one Catholic Church of all Christendom.

[tenborck]

None of them in the west... Weird huh? 🤔

[snsnsnsns-yj]

0:48 is an oversimplification. The size of a council has nothing to do with it being ecumenical, rather its acceptance. For example the Council of Constantinople 381 had 150 bishops with no representation from the Western Church. On the other hand the heretical iconoclast council of Hieria 754 had 338 bishops. It considered itself ecumenical but in the end it was rejected by 2nd Nicaea in 787. Therefore it is universal acceptance, not the size and geographical scope of a council that determines its ecumenical nature.

[emanuilgoshev]

Council of Hieria > 2nd Council of Nicaea